Blowing paint around is great fun and can be used for all kinds of artwork! Here’s a few examples of what we’ve done in our class. 

Prepare: 

Practise blowing with a straw. Most kids will have used a straw at some point, but they are used to a sucking action with it. Before doing the crafts and involving paints (especially with the 2-3 year olds) we practised how to blow into a straw. I gave the kids a straw and a ping pong ball and asked them to practise blowing the ball to a dedicated area. We also made some rockets to blow up in the air (super fun activity!). After practising and ensuring we know the difference between blowing and sucking, we moved on to the craft. 

You need: 

• A straw for each child (paper ones if you have, for the nature)
• Pipettes or a large paint brush
• A4 Card
• Paints: I had poster paint which I diluted with water. Watercolours would do fine as well, but since our background paper in this was black, poster paints show on it better. 

Give each child a straw and a paper and place all your materials on the table. Help the children choose their paints and use the pipettes as too much paint is difficult to blow. You get best results by putting a few wet drops, creating a small puddle in the middle of the paper. The paint is easy to blow from that. If you don’t have pipettes, you can also use a thick brush to drop the water on the paper with. Then give the children their straw and ask them to blow the paint in any direction they want. 

In this activity/craft we wanted to make some fireworks to celebrate the New Year!  The activity itself was almost as explosive as the fireworks would be. For extra glamour and shine, add glitter whilst the paint is still wet.

For the peacock version we had white background paper and used watercolours:

• White paper 
• Watercolours 
• Two card circles in different sizes for head and body (our 3-4 year olds cut their own)
• Beak 
• Feathers
• Googly eyes

Same as above but the objective of the blow art was to make the gorgeous tail of a peacock! When the painting is dry, glue on the body, head, beak, eyes and feathers for wings.

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